diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 36659c150..b10427d65 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ nltk==3.4
 psutil==5.5.1
 pyenchant==2.0.0
 pythonwhois==2.4.3
-requests==2.22.0
+requests==2.26.0
 requests-oauthlib==1.2.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.2.12
 tweepy==3.8.0